Tennessee judges have dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Knoxville couple who alleged that a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency refused to help them because they are Jewish.
The lawsuit challenged a 2020 state law that installed legal protections for private adoption agencies to reject state-funded placement of children to parents based on religious beliefs.
After first agreeing to help them, Holston in January 2021 informed them it wouldn’t enroll them in foster-parent training classes because “as a Christian organization, our executive team made the decision several years ago to only provide adoption services to prospective adoptive families that share our belief system in order to avoid conflicts or delays with future service delivery.”
Source: Judges dismiss Knoxville Jewish couple’s suit alleging adoption bias | wbir.com












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